Vizio Enters Windows 8 Tablet Fray

Vizio, one of the top television makers in the U.S., entered the PC market with a bevy of sleek designs that echoed its television roots. Now, it wants to put out equally appealing Windows 8 tablets too.

The company, which has made tablets based on Google’s Android mobile operating system for the past couple of years, said it will be releasing a line of tablets based on Microsoft’s Windows 8 operating system, which is designed to work with both computers and tablets.

Rob Kermode, head of the Irvine, Calif., company’s PC and mobile device efforts, acknowledged that Vizio’s offerings were coming months after some other companies had released their Windows 8 tablets in late October. But, he said, Vizio chose to wait until the Consumer Electronics Show to make announcements because it was watching how customers would respond.

“We want to know what consumers want and what they’re using,” he said.

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